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Tag Archives: Antarctica
Antarctic fungi survive Martian conditions for 18 months on ISS
European scientists have gathered tiny fungi that take shelter in Antarctic rocks and sent them to the International Space Station. After 18 months on board in conditions similar to those on Mars, more than 60% of their cells remained intact, … Continue reading
Antarctic Dry Valleys reveal limits to life?
Failure to find active microbes in coldest Antarctic soils has implications for search for life on Mars. It took Jackie Goordial over 1000 petri dishes before she was ready to accept what she was seeing. Or not seeing. Goordial, a … Continue reading
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Tagged Antarctica, astrobiology, Dry Valleys, life, University Valley
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What Earth’s saltiest pond says about Mars
An Antarctic pond that’s the saltiest natural body of water on Earth stays wet in part by pulling moisture out of the air, scientists have discovered. And that has implications for possible brine seeps and reservoirs on Mars. Don Juan … Continue reading
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Tagged Antarctica, brine seeps, brines, calcium chloride, deliquescence, Don Juan Pond, ice, lineae, liquid water, ponds, recurring slope lineae, RSL, water
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